Deuteronomy 4:12

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Then the LORD spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form—there was only a voice.

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  • Deut 5:4 : 4 The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
  • Deut 5:22 : 22 These are the words the LORD spoke to your entire assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the profound darkness, with a loud voice. He added no more, and He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
  • Exod 20:22 : 22 Then the LORD said to Moses, 'This is what you shall say to the children of Israel: You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.'
  • Deut 4:15 : 15 So be very careful for your own lives, because you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire.
  • Deut 4:33 : 33 Has any people heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have heard, and lived?
  • Deut 4:36 : 36 From heaven He caused you to hear His voice to teach you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
  • Num 12:8 : 8 With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?'
  • 1 Kgs 19:12-13 : 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak, went out, and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then a voice came to him, saying, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'
  • Isa 30:21 : 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, 'This is the way; walk in it.'
  • Isa 40:3 : 3 A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
  • Isa 40:6 : 6 A voice says, 'Cry out.' And I said, 'What shall I cry?' All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
  • Isa 40:18 : 18 To whom, then, will you compare God? What image can you find to resemble Him?
  • Matt 3:3 : 3 This is the one who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: 'A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Prepare the way for the Lord; make His paths straight.'
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 And a voice from heaven said, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.'
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!'
  • John 12:28-30 : 28 Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." 29 The crowd that was standing there and heard it said it was thunder. Others said, "An angel has spoken to Him." 30 Jesus replied, "This voice did not come for My sake, but for yours."
  • Col 1:15 : 15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
  • 2 Pet 1:17-18 : 17 For He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice was conveyed to Him by the Majestic Glory: 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.' 18 We ourselves heard this voice, which came from heaven, when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 5:4-5
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    4The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

    5At that time, I stood between the LORD and you to declare His word to you, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said:

  • Deut 4:33-36
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    33Has any people heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have heard, and lived?

    34Or has any god ever tried to take for himself a nation from within another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

    35You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

    36From heaven He caused you to hear His voice to teach you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.

  • Deut 4:10-11
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    10Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me, 'Assemble the people for Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and to teach them to their children.'

    11You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire up to the very heavens, with darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.

  • Deut 4:13-16
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    84%

    13He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to keep—the Ten Commandments—and He wrote them on two stone tablets.

    14The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, so that you would observe them in the land you are crossing over to possess.

    15So be very careful for your own lives, because you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire.

    16Do not act corruptly by making for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure, whether male or female.

  • Deut 5:22-28
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    81%

    22These are the words the LORD spoke to your entire assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the profound darkness, with a loud voice. He added no more, and He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

    23When you heard the voice from the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders came to me.

    24And you said, 'Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.

    25But now why should we die? This great fire will consume us, and we will die if we continue to hear the voice of the LORD our God.

    26For who among all flesh has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and lived?

    27Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you, and we will listen and obey.

    28The LORD heard your words when you spoke to me, and He said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.

  • Deut 18:16
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    16This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, or we will die.'

  • Heb 12:18-19
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    18For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, that is burning with fire, to darkness, gloom, and a storm,

    19to a trumpet blast or a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them,

  • Exod 20:22
    76%

    22Then the LORD said to Moses, 'This is what you shall say to the children of Israel: You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.'

  • Deut 9:10
    74%

    10Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the words the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

  • Exod 20:18-19
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    73%

    18When all the people saw the thunder and the lightning flashes, and heard the sound of the trumpet, and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear and stood at a distance.

    19They said to Moses, 'Speak to us yourself, and we will listen. But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.'

  • Acts 7:31
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    31Moses was amazed at what he saw. As he approached to look more closely, he heard the voice of the Lord say,

  • Exod 24:17
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    17The appearance of the LORD's glory was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the sight of the Israelites.

  • Deut 4:20
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    20But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of His inheritance, as you are today.

  • Exod 24:12
    72%

    12The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay there, so I can give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written to teach them."

  • Deut 10:4
    72%

    4The LORD wrote on the tablets, just as He had done the first time, the Ten Commandments that He had proclaimed to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly. Then the LORD gave them to me.

  • Neh 9:13
    72%

    13You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them upright judgments, true laws, good statutes, and commandments.

  • Deut 12:4
    72%

    4Do not worship the Lord your God in the same way that they worship their gods.

  • 1 Kgs 19:12
    72%

    12After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.

  • Exod 20:1
    71%

    1And God spoke all these words, saying:

  • Num 14:14
    71%

    14They will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are among these people, that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

  • Deut 4:23
    71%

    23Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you, and not to make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything He has forbidden you.

  • Num 12:8
    71%

    8With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?'

  • Exod 34:27
    71%

    27The LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

  • Deut 9:15-16
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    71%

    15So I turned and went down the mountain while it was ablaze with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

    16I saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made a molten calf for yourselves. You had quickly turned aside from the way the LORD had commanded you.

  • Deut 1:33-34
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    33who went before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp, by night in the fire to show you the way you should go, and by day in the cloud.

    34When the LORD heard what you said, He became angry and swore an oath:

  • Exod 19:3
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    3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall say to the house of Jacob and declare to the children of Israel:

  • Exod 34:3
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    3No one may come up with you, and no one should be seen anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and herds must not graze near the mountain.

  • Lev 4:1
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    1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Deut 9:8
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    8Even at Horeb, you provoked the LORD to anger, and the LORD was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Exod 19:18
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    18Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

  • Exod 19:9
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    9The LORD said to Moses, 'Behold, I am coming to you in a dense cloud so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may always believe in you.' Then Moses reported the people's words to the LORD.

  • Deut 1:6
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    6The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain.